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NFL + NBA + Holiday Prep = Foodie Heaven!

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by Jacqui Love Marshall, San Ramon,
on Nov 27, 2011

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the pro basketball season is back on, there are at least three days per week devoted to watching professional sports games on TV (four if you include holiday decorating/shopping as a Winter Olympic sport). That means pulling out your easy-to-do and healthy finger snack recipes to make at a moment’s notice. ==I Go Raiders! Go 49ers! Go Warriors! Go Foodies!==

==B Double Chocolate Mocha Brownies (makes 32)==
1½ sticks (¾ cup) unsalted butter
5 oz unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 cups sugar
1 Tbsp instant-espresso powder or instant-coffee granules
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
4 large eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a 15x10x1” baking pan with foil, allowing 2” of foil to hang over ends of pan, and grease foil well (except overhang) with 1 Tbsp butter.
2. Melt remaining 11 Tbsp butter with unsweetened chocolate in a large metal bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water, stirring until smooth. Remove bowl from heat and whisk in sugar, espresso powder, vanilla, and salt (mixture will be grainy), then add eggs one at a time, whisking after each addition until batter is smooth.
3. Toss together flour and chocolate chips in another bowl and add to batter, stirring until just combined.
4. Spread batter evenly in baking pan and bake in middle of oven until top is firm and edges just begin to pull away from sides of pan, about 20 min. (do not overbake).
5. Cool in pan on a rack 5 min., then carefully lift brownies from pan by grasping both ends of foil and transfer to rack to cool 10 min. more. Cut into 32 squares and lift brownies off foil with a spatula.